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On Being a Mother and a Time Traveler
The problem with getting older is that we only have our youth to compare it to. I look in my bathroom mirror, leaning gingerly over the dried toothpaste on my right and the puddle of what I hope is water … Continue reading
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When Depression Comes in Disguise
I just learned that May is Mental Health Awareness Month which is PERFECT because I just started taking anti-depressants again. Serendipity, friends; I could not have planned this better. Now this story, which I would’ve told you anyway, has a purpose. … Continue reading
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20 Things Every Parent Should Hear
A few weeks ago I wrote a piece titled You Don’t Have to Choose a Parenting Method to be a Great Parent. Today, hand in hand with that post, I want to share some words on parenting. Your words. Words … Continue reading
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You Don’t Have to Choose a Parenting Method to be a Great Parent
I walked the floor with a baby on each shoulder gently bounce, bounce, bouncing them, my back burning, hoping to ease my twins to sleep. They must’ve been just a few weeks old, our fourth and fifth kids, recently out … Continue reading
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An Open Letter to New Mama Me
If I could go back fourteen years to the beginning of this Mama Gig, there are things I’d tell New Mama Me. Things she should hear. Things she should know. Things I’d deliver straight to her heart, like that violent … Continue reading
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I love you. You’re not alone. Knock it off.
Dear, dear, dear, dear, dear, sweet child, whom I love very, very, very, very, very, very much, Knock it off. You are driving your family crazy, man. Crazy to the moon. And when I say “your family,” I include you … Continue reading
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Where else would you build your nest?
Our front porch is covered with wisteria, a jungle invasion at odds with the manicured lawns at our neighbors’ houses but somehow complementary to the flowering, resilient, eye-high weeds that welcome visitors to our house. Erin came over the other … Continue reading
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So your bathroom smells like pee…
Some people offer slippers or nice, cushy socks to guests who enter their homes. The floors stay pristine in their unscuffed beauty, and the guests are comfy. Well, it’s way too late for our floors. That ship sailed a decade … Continue reading
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Mothering doesn’t get easier. It gets stronger.
You know how intensely irritating (read: soul-sucking) it is when you’re barely surviving the raising of little littles and you’ve been covered in spit-up and boogers and yogurt and poo for days, and you’re praying for just three hours of … Continue reading
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UPDATED: The wench is missing.
Cai told me last night that Daddy’s wench is missing. “Mommy?” Cai said. “Mah-mee. MommyMomMomMommyMom!” “Yes, Cai?” I replied absentmindedly, eyes affixed to the seventeenth Stephanie Plum novel and rather not paying the kind of attention I should’ve been paying … Continue reading
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